Painting on layers

We are talking about Safety Nets.…There are various ways to build a Safety Net into your work.…What I am going to talk about now is Layer Painting.…And Layer Painting is just a technique for painting instead of on a single canvas, you paint on layers,…and the more layers you use, the greater the Safety Net.…And I'll just do a quick sample here, I am going to be using from the oil pastels category, just the oil pastel 30 brush.…And I am going to create a new layer, which in the Layers palette I can do quickly by clicking…on the third icon from the left, the New Layer icon.…

So I have created a new layer and I am just going to do a little bit of sketching here.…And we'll just do some imaginary expressionist or leaves and flowers.…So as I go through this, each time I am going to like change color or do a major different item,…I am going to change to a new layer, or create a new layer to paint on.…So now we'll go in here and let's say it's going to be some kind of flower and again this is just very quick.…

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5/2/2008

Expressive brushes. This is instructor John Derry's two-word answer as to why Painter is such an effective tool. When used with a Wacom tablet, Painter can elevate digital mark-making to a form of creative self-expression. Combining the aesthetics of traditional media with the freedom to experiment, Painter X Essential Training not only delves into each tool, palette, material, and brush, it also speaks to the artistic concepts of simplicity, stroke, proportion, and perspective. Exercise files accompany the course.

Download John's instructions for alphabetizing your brushes and his troubleshooting checklist for brushes from the Exercise Files tab."

Topics include:

Understanding and customizing a Wacom tablet
Creating brushes
Painting with compositional aids
Working with layers
Cloning and using effects
Using Painter and Photoshop effectively